Rine v. Rine

This interlocutory appeal is taken from an order entered after judgment which denied appellant-wife’s petition for attorney’s fees. In the previous final judgment the court had dismissed the appellant-wife’s suit for divorce after trial. When the cause came on to be heard on the wife’s application for attorney’s fees the court found as follows:

“ * * * The legal issue presented by the oral argument and written briefs for the respective parties is whether or not attorney fees and suit monies shall be awarded to a wife, of independent means, who files a groundless and ultimately *656unsuccessful…